Most cowboy/western shows were what they used to call "action" shows where the highlight was a big fight at the end of the show. HGWT did often have a fight at the end, but the story was more about...
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Most cowboy/western shows were what they used to call "action" shows where the highlight was a big fight at the end of the show. HGWT did often have a fight at the end, but the story was more about...
Actually I was here before: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?68499-Is-The-Merchant-of-Venice-anti-Semitic&p=1399857&viewfull=1#post1399857
I believe the only cargo...
Viniculture and wine selling were also two principles industries among Jews of that era:
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jews-and-the-wine-and-liquor-trade
There were also several...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs8K3P-DpDs
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3179/3179-h/3179-h.htm#chap2
Colonel Mulberry Sellers—this was some days before he wrote his letter to Lord...
More than once I've been described as being exceedingly eccentric. That's OK since, after all, I'm originally from Brooklyn. So naturally, I'm attracted to characters who, like myself, are just a...
https://brainly.com/question/44736896
Shakespeare is alive and well in the U.S., with some 150 Shakespeare festivals around the country—30 in California alone.
The statement that...
Dickens was perhaps the greatest fiction writer of the modern era. I've read several of his works and find that his short fiction was rather under rated. His best novel and, indeed my favorite, is...
"Double Duty" Radcliffe ~ I have two autographs of him. Met him twice (once in Chicago's Comiskey Park & another time in St Paul's MLK Center) and what a genuine nice guy he was!
Bob Uecker ~ I...
My knowledge of history is every bit as good as my knowledge of literature but I am not going to get much into this subject as that is not the scope of this forum or of the thread. Sad that you...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pgozvRaddE
DOSTOEVSKY'S ST PETERSBURG | Crime and Punishment locations
Miss Elena says, This video is about Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the part of St...
So many claim to worship the Prince of Peace. Ironically, it is an incontrovertible fact that more people have been killed in his name than for any other reason in human history.
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
Started to read it as a teen well back in the 1960s but couldn't stomach its contents. Mebbe some day as it is a very significant revelation about certain important...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDoBtHznukw
Jacob Riis photos illustrate Maggie's frightening nether world.
The Cop and the Anthem
https://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short-story/the-cop-and-the-anthem
Great irony in this little comedy story set in Gotham. But so memorable that it was...
The Poor Traveler: http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/4391/
This brief book dealt with the Christmas themes of forgiveness and redemption. The chief character stands as an "everyman", a...
What a great quote! This especially since Nation encountered Crane's widow a couple of years after his death:
https://thecoastal.com/featured/grand-madam-jacksonville/
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Ned Buntline was probably the...
HELL is repeated so many times in the book that its symbolism here cannot possibly be misunderstood.
When Maggie goes off with Peter, Mary refers to him as that "jude fellow". Evidently, being a...
Enjoyed 1984 and Homage to Catalonia. Mebbe some day soon I'll read Down ....
I recommend London's People of the Abyss. That was an awesome book on the subject of urban poverty.
As with Dostoyevsky, historians and biographers agree that there was some degree of anti Semitism to Crane (however, there does not appear to be any historical evidence to show that he approved of...
Indeed. Crane grew up in poverty and was very sympathetic towards the poor. He was looking for social reform just like Dickens who Bleak House brought about changes in chancery court. Those changes...
^I always like Casey Kasem's accent ~ there was always a lot of excitement in his speech. Ditto for other Californians I've known. Must be the atmosphere.
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Young girl with baby in the...
I believe it. When I first heard Bernie Sander's accent you could tell immediately that he was originally from the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. Indeed, in the old days you could actually tell what...
Actually, it's Bostonians with the "ahs". In New York we often say "uhs".
As for the Lake Wobegone accent, it's more like long oooooo's and aaaaaa's. The food here is often quite bland but it...